•A very full and highly informative Quechua language site by Serafín
Coronel-Molina, a Peruvian native Quechua-speaker and linguist, author of the 2nd
edition of the Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook, and who now teaches Quechua in
the USA:http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~scoronel/quechua.html

•For a whole suite of websites on the history and archaeology of all the main indigenous cultures of Peru (not just the Quechua
people by any means!), with a wealth of beautifully presented information, link
to the homepage of the superb Centro Cultural Perú Virtual
website, with its links in the right‑hand column:www.perucultural.org.pe.The same links and a few more are available
at:http://revistandina.perucultural.org.pe/enlaces.htm.

•A great website on the other main Andean language family, Aymara, is Aymara Uta website atwww.aymara.org.Particularly recommended is the page with an excellent introduction
to the Aymara language family.

•The entire text of two major Quechua dictionaries is now available for download free, or online search,
at:www.runasimipi.org.

•One of the earliest good Quechua sites on the web, by Mark
Rosenfelder, with a nice general
introduction for non-specialists: www.zompist.com/quechua.html.

•A great site about the famous Huarochirí Quechua manuscript of 1608(?), by Frank
Salomon, who co-wrote the book on the manuscript.This website includes excerpts of the text in
Quechua with facing Spanish and English translations, a full bibliography
relating to manuscript, and some other materials relevant to Quechua.

•A site for a telecommunications programme for Andean
communities?! But anyway some good information on Quechua: www.quechuanetwork.org,
and they’ll send you regular email newsletters in Quechua.

•The now very extensive Wikipedia
pages in Quechua (unified spelling system) at qu.wikipedia.org.

•A full and informative Quechua language site by Serafín Coronel-Molina,
a Peruvian native Quechua-speaker and linguist, author of the 2nd
edition of the Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook, and who teaches Quechua in the
USA:http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~scoronel/quechua.html

•Language and dialect classification for Quechua –
the Ethnologue homepage www.sil.org/ethnologue/, including a dialect
classification and many dialect maps, may be of great interest to
linguists. I should point out, though, that most linguists have very
strong and well-founded reservations about the Summer Institute of
Linguistics (SIL) / Instituto Lingüístico de Verano(ILV), and indeed like myself
will have nothing to do with them, because of their close links to missionary
organisations (who largely fund the SIL).Their blinkered priority is bible translations for the so-called
‘unevangelised’ indigenous peoples (a repulsive concept in itself, with all the
arrogant baggage that goes with it…), and all other aims lose out to this
one.For one tiny example of the very
damaging effects of their bible-first approach on work on the Andean languages,
see Cerrón-Palomino (1992),
particularly endnote 1.

•A great site about the famous Huarochirí Quechua manuscript of 1608(?), by Frank
Solomon, who co-wrote the book on the manuscript.This website includes excerpts of the text in
Quechua with facing Spanish and English translations, a full bibliography
relating to manuscript, and some other materials relevant to Quechua.

If you’re searching the internet for information on Ecuadoran and Argentinean
Quechua, remember that it is generally known in those countries as Quichua instead (i.e. spelt with an i).Even
in other regions, many people prefer this spelling.

•My bibliography
page for general Andean linguistics, with a note on the different competing spelling systems used for the Aymara
languages.

The only major Andean language family still surviving is the one
variously known as Jaqi, Aru or Aymara, which includes not just
the Altiplano (or ‘southern’) Aymara, but the other member of the family, Jaqaru—Kawki still spoken (just!) in a few
villages in the mountains of central Peru (Lima department.

•The Aymara
Uta website www.aymara.org has an excellent introduction
to the Aymara language family, a good bibliography, and many detailed linguistic articles
on the Andean languages downloadable from it.

•Another good and extensive site on the Aymara
family, with online lessons, courses, bibliographies and other resources, is
run by the Instituto de
Lengua y Cultura Aymara at www.ilcanet.org.

•On my Sounds of the Andean Languages section at www.quechua.org.uk/sounds you can hear and compare pronunciations
in each of these, and read a little about the origins of the Aymara family.

•The first, and for a long time only linguist to have worked intensively
on the Jaqaru—Kawki language is Dr Martha Hardman, at the University of Florida.She is the author of the two core grammars on the language, and of
various other works on the Aymara (which she prefers to call Jaqi) language
family in general.Her personal webpage
and personal publications list are also very useful for
this language family.

•My own site includes this basic bibliography section, and an article (in Spanish) by
Dante Oliva León on the endangered Central Aymara language Jaqaru—Kawki.

•For a whole suite of websites on the history and archaeology of all the main indigenous cultures of Peru (not just the Quechua
people by any means!), with a wealth of beautifully presented information, link
to the homepage of the superb Centro Cultural Perú Virtual
website, with its links in the right‑hand column:www.perucultural.org.pe.The same links and a few more are available
at:http://revistandina.perucultural.org.pe/enlaces.htm.

•There is also this nice site on the Incas, and their amazing ancestor
civilisations, full of great pictures too:www.theincas.com

•Another of Frank Salomon’s sites, The Khipu Patrimony of Rapaz,
is about a Quechua-speaking highland village in Peru which
still keeps its traditional community khipu, the old Inca and
pre-Inca system of record-keeping using knotted strings.

•There are plenty of websites on traditional
Quechua art, particularly weaving
– see the links pages above.One great
place to go for this is around Sucre in Bolivia, both
the Tarabuco area, and the Jalq’a area around Potolo and Maragua.Both areas are famous for their indigenous
traditions, not least their superb weavings – even if you’re really not a fan,
make this stuff the one type you see!The wonderful, haunting Jalq’a khuru and saqra motifs (imaginary wild animals and underworld
gods, red on black) are classic indigenous American imagery.A visit to the excellent ASUR foundation museum in Sucre is very highly recommended for
background information on both these areas (click here
or here for their website).Tarabuco has a famous, if rather touristy,
market every Sunday.The Jalq’a area
especially is in any case a fascinating region, with craters, dinosaur
footprints, Inca trails, and superb mid-altitude Andean scenery including the
Chataquila ridge – see the Bradt Publications book on Hiking in Peru and Bolivia.There’s a similar foundation now working with
villagers in and around Cuzco too, with an
office and showroom/‌shop on
Avenida del Sol opposite the Post Office.

•The best markets to go to
– though of course all are now increasingly catering for tourists as much as if
not more than locals – are probably Pisac (P’isaq) near Cuzco in Peru,
Tarabuco in Bolivia, and Otavalo in Ecuador.

•The homepage of Uchpa – literally ash(es)–
the one group I know of who sing rock music in
Quechua, from Ayacucho,
Peru:http://www.uchpa.com.

•A great site about the famous Huarochirí Quechua manuscript of 1608(?), by Frank
Solomon, who co-wrote the book on the manuscript.This website includes excerpts of the text in
Quechua with facing Spanish and English translations, a full bibliography
relating to manuscript, and some other materials relevant to Quechua.